LITERATURE

Research Methodology

Part 13

Summary of the article3

Critical Analysis4

Evaluation of Article's Weakness and Strength5

References7

Research Methodology

Part 1

Summary of the Article

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore presents an academic article “Brain development during adolescence” which investigates the complex processes of brain development in infants and underlines the recent and earlier research on the shifting during the time of puberty and after that. It is essential to notice that the development of adolescence body is evident, but what is happening in teenager's mind is important to study. Sarah presents that during the years of teenage, education may emphasize over the stimulation of particular brain parts that change factors including multi tasking, internal control and social cognitive skills. Moreover, the research also indicates that there is no such biological understanding for rushing and starting the formal learning. However, the late study of natural brain and cognitive development is reconsidered again. The article contains many facts and figures for exploring the topic on greater extent, but yet has certain flaws. This paper is aimed to critique on an academic article of Sarah-Jayne Blakemore “Brain development during adolescence”, and identify its strength and weakness in an analytical way.

Adolescence is commonly described as the age of social and psychological transition between infancy to maturity. The starting of adolescence takes place from onset of puberty, which is further classified by dramatic physical and hormonal changes. The change from infancy to maturity is also qualified by psychological alterations in terms of cognitive elasticity, self-consciousness and identity. The personality of children during the time of puberty seems to change. After puberty period, children are found more sensible and aware about people around them, their emotions and opinions. She explains that the brain of adult contains around 100 billion cells (Blakemore, p 81). However, the development of a baby brain also nourish by the changes of its body structure.

Sarah presented that synaptic pruning efficiently develops the connection of perceptual processes and brain tissues. An instance of this is the classification of sound. A synapse is a distance among nerve cells, from where chemical information transmits in the nervous system. Initially, the learning of one's language needs classification of sounds that eventually make a complete language. The article represents the language development process in new born babies. She presented the study of Patricia Kuhl, who revealed that by the conclusion of first year, babies lose the ability to differentiate between sounds to which they are not exhibited (Kuhl, 2004). The study of Kuhl presents the perception of babies of two dissimilar sounds from the language of Hindi, to which Adults of American and British are merely not able to differentiate. It shows that the babies of America less than 10 months can identify the difference between these sounds that adult of America cannot recognize. This statement or study does not really reflect the complete understanding to me. I believe that here Sarah should have presented more research in detail, so we could easily understand what Kuhl really wanted to ...